Annoyed. Work. Waiting Until The End Of The Day.

(Mr. Kissinger testing out the new system. “Reserved. Whitehouse. Adding kitties to my MySpace page.”)

I tend to read a lot of “Inside Baseball,” internet sites like Mashable and TechCrunch, and it getting kinda sad how many social networking sites are popping up lately.

We have a social netowrk for coffee drinkers, dog owners, and even babies.

We’re getting to the inventble point when someone sets up a social networking site for people who like social networks.

We’re almost there with FriendFeed and iminta, pulling together your friend’s and your updates and the various sites, but I’m talking about a site where you go to meet up with other fans of social networks.

A “MetaBookSpace,” where you login and join the, “Users Of Myspace,” group and fight the, “Haters Of Myspace” group.

You know personally I have a hard enough time keeping up with the real life friends I have without trying to keep up with a bunch of people I only know because we’re in the, “I Like Bunnies,” group on Facebook.

This has lead Kreblog and I to come up with, “InYourFaceBook.” It will keep up with your friends without the messy need to ever talk to them or see them face to face.

An automated phone system will call your friends, and an automated message will say, “Hello. This is InYourFaceBook with your weekly update for, (insert name here). After the tone, please state your mood, location, and current activity. Beep.”

(Feel free to beta test the system in the comments.)

R.E.M. launching album on social networking site – Yahoo! News

R.E.M. launching album on social networking site – Yahoo! News

Alright, two questions.

1. How many people want to listen to an album while not only being forced to stay at the computer, but to stay on one particular web site no less?

Maybe some people are OK with that, but personally if I can’t listen to it on my iPod then I really don’t want to be bothered. I don’t listen to music too much at work, and I have other things to occupy my time at home. So I really get into my music while I am out, and about.

2. (And the more important question) Does anyone still care what R.E.M. does?

I know they say this has never been done before, but this feels like a 90’s move by a 90’s band.

(Sorry R.E.M. fans. I’m not saying they don’t have some great songs, but are they culturally relevant anymore?)

Remixing the London police’s anti-photographer terrror posters – Boing Boing Remixing the London police’s anti-photographer terrror posters – Boing Boing

Remixing the London police’s anti-photographer terrror posters – Boing Boing

There’re all good, but this one made me laugh.

I want to make a shirt that says, “Please Don’t Shoot The Brown People.”

Shot From Downtown

The view from the 37th floor of 2 WFC.

We had to move some users from there to our location.

Wish it was a better day, but still a cool view .

A Hamburger Today: Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger

A Hamburger Today: Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger:
That’s it. Paula Deen has shown her hand.

At first we could go, “Yeah she uses a lot of butter, but she clearly expects us to only be eating this way once in awhile.”

No there’s no doubt that she is throwing just the most ridiculous, heart-stopping things together just to see if anyone will actually make and eat it.

Sorry, Paula. I can see a hamburger with an egg on it. I can almost see a hamburger on a doughnut (almost), but together?

Nice try.

Still, you sort of want one, don’t you?

OK, Two Things From Engadget Today

First:

Maxell to no longer manufacture discs, blow customers away – Engadget

So Maxell will still put it’s name on the discs, but won’t actually make them. Honestly Maxell, what’s the point then?

I guess you might have made a name for yourselves in the tape and battery business, but most people probably think of media when it comes to Maxell, and since no one cares about cassettes anymore, that means discs.

If your discs are made by some no name company, and you just slap your name on it and charge me more money for that name, I think I’ll just continue to buy the cheapest discs like I always do.

Second:

Audiophiles can’t tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers – Engadget

Monster cables have always been the biggest scam in all of these home electronic stores.

I always had this image in my mind of a bunch of guys striping copper out some abandoned building, sealing it in a fancy blister pack, slapping, “Monster Cable,” on it, and selling it at Best Buy.

Not that is confirms that (I’m sure Monster has some elaborate voodoo that they tell themselves makes their cables better), but this makes me feel better next time I tell the blue shirt at Best Buy where he can take is $100 for a 6″ cable upsell.

BTW, the biggest offender of the “More Money For Just A Name,” is HDMI cables. HDMI cables are for digital signals, and with digital signals, the signal either gets to the other side, or it does not. There’s no degradation, and there’s no benefit to having a cable made out of the spear that pierced the side of Christ. So save some cash and buy the cheapest HDMI cables that you can find.

Oh, and if anyone interested, apparently I have thousands of dollars worth of high-end audio cabling in my closet that I’d be will to sell at a fair price.

Is Scrubs on the way to ABC? – TV Squad

Is Scrubs on the way to ABC? – TV Squad

Listen, we can get in to a discussion over whither or not Scrubs has fallen a bit flat lately.

(For the record, last season: totally. This season: not so much. And it has everything to do with JD not acting like a goofball all the time. Yes he is a goofball, but it’s his balance with that and being a caring doctor/friend that makes the character so interesting. Last season they turned him into a cartoon character and the show suffered. This season he’s been working on acting like an adult for his son, and the show got better.)

Still, a bit flat or not, I want this show to have the ending the writers intend. Not some cobbled together story, written because NBC doesn’t want to give them the full rest of the season.

If the show has to move to ABC to do it, then let’s move the show to ABC.

Frankly it’s a shame this didn’t happen a long time ago. The execs over at ABC love the show, and if they took it, then maybe they could have given it the love it needed.

Instead fans have to hope and pray someone, somewhere can get the last 16 episodes out.

The Leila Texts

The Leila Texts

Kinda like an Overheard In New York for text messages.

Always interesting to see just a random snippet into someone else’s life with no context what so ever.